Puerto Vallarta

We were able to take a wonderful vacation this summer. No kids. Bliss! We had such a great time. We stayed at an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It was gorgeous! The fam This ended up being one of our favorite pictures (even though the quality is horrible). This was our first day here eating lunch. I was taking a picture of Kipp and at the last second, I told our server to get in the picture. Kipp made a totally awkward face-got to love Kipp. All the Pina Coladas we could drink. Virgin of course!

I love my parents!

Eating again! They had several different restaurants at the resort. It was fun trying out a new place each night.

One morning we went on an ATV tour. One of the tour guides was splashing everyone with mud (it had poured rain the night before our ride) he kept acting like he didn't understand English, at the end of the tour he was speaking English perfectly-little crapper! We were filthy!

The sistas'

This was taken at a place called El Eden were the Predator was filmed. We were supposed to be able to swim in the river and go down some natural rock slides in the waterfall, however after renting jeeps and a 2 hour long ride we got up there to find that they water was too rapid that day to get in. It was gorgeous though!
After leaving El Eden we drove to a little surf town. The boys got some boards and tried to hang ten.

We had so much fun thanks to wonderful family and friends that helped us out with our munchkins. We should take vacations more often!

Riverton Days

Ayden made huge strides this summer in the ride department. He actually enjoyed them! A much different experience than last summer where each ride had to be stopped early to keep the toddler from bailing. Ayden and Boston loved this one in particular-an you tell? They laughed the entire time. Lilah and Colby just chillin'

Budding Photographer

Ayden loves to take pictures with the camera. He walks around taking pictures of us, himself, and random objects. He was becoming a great little photographer, until he dropped the camera. Now we are getting images like this:
Needless to say, his photography career came to an abrupt halt.

3 Musketeers

These three are little pals and they crack me up! Every time they get together at our house-out comes Ayden's super hero gear. There are 3 parts to the darling costume (that my darling sister-in-law made) so they each get one part, then they rotate them. They then ask for the "Buzz song" which is the music at the beginning of Toy Story 2 where Buzz is flying through space (I purchased it on iTunes because it was a frequent request from Ayden for me to "sing." It is difficult to "sing" instrumental "songs.") They run around the house like super heroes. These kids are quite cute together.

Dear Summer,

now that you have seemed to finally arrive, you make my heart happy! my niece elliemy nephew zack

My Little Cowboy

I always told my Uncle Val from Fillmore that I wanted him to hook me up with a cowboy to marry. Well those of you who know Kipp, know that I didn't get my cowboy. Maybe I can raise one for a lucky girl to marry!

These pictures were taken on two different occasions (although he is wearing the same outfit), one at Thanksgiving farm, and the other at my niece's darling birthday party. Ayden loved every second of riding. He kept shouting, "Yee-haw Bullseye!"

Robot Dance

I have been meaning to post this, but hesitated because I hate the sound of my voice on video. Ayden loves to dance with me in the kitchen, so one afternoon I decided that I would try to get him to do specific moves instead of just running around. The result is the "Robot Dance." He loves it and always asks to do it. I realize I probably could have chosen a better song for a toddler to dance to than "Your Love is My Drug" oh well!